At the initiative of CSC (IT Centre for Science), the Finnish Terminology Centre TSK will continue the terminology work on providing descriptions for central concepts related to government subsidies during spring 2020. The terminology work aims to support a project with the objective of developing and digitising activities related to government subsidies. Project Director Tuula Lybeck sheds light on the goals and history of the project in her column (available in Finnish).

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In 2017, the Finnish Terminology Centre carried out terminology work for KEHA-Centre’s (Development and Administrative Services Centre for public employment services) TE-digi project (project which aims to develop a national digital “meeting place” for the supply and demand for labour). In August 2019, this work was continued with a special focus on concepts related to customership. The work will result in a terminology in which terms, definitions and notes are given in Finnish at this point.

In August 2019, the Finnish Terminology Centre resumed the terminology work for CSC (IT Centre for Science), which aims at providing descriptions for central concepts related to government subsidies. The terminology work aims to support a project whose objective is to develop and digitalise activities related to government subsidies. The responsibility of the preparation stage of the digitalisation project lies with the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.

The Ministry of the Environment commissioned the Finnish Terminology Centre for a terminology project in September 2019. The aim of the project is to provide definitions for some 30 concepts related to the cultural environment and building heritage. The concepts of the terminology will be provided with descriptions and term usage recommendations in Finnish as well as equivalents in Swedish.

The software company Trimble Solutions (formerly called Tekla) publishes and maintains Tekla Structures glossary, which is a terminology resource accompanying the Tekla Structures building information modelling software. The software and the glossary combine terminology from both construction and IT fields. The glossary provides terms and definitions in English for the central concepts of the software.

In 2017, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy and the Finnish Terminology Centre carried out a joint terminology project which resulted in publishing a terminology entitled Luvat ja valvonta -hanke: Palvelukerroksen keskeiset käsitteet, versio 0.8 (Licencing and Supervision Project – central service-layer concepts, version 0.8). In February 2019, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy commissioned from the Terminology Centre a new terminology project, with a view to introducing new concepts to the earlier publication.

Verotussanasto (versio 1.0) (taxation terminology, version 1.0), compiled by the Finnish Terminology Centre on commission by the Tax Administration, was published in March 2019. After the publication, terminology work was continued. The aim of the current work is to introduce to the publication around 70 new concepts related to topics such as tax recovery, taxation on wealth, and self-assessed taxes. The concepts will be provided with descriptions and term usage recommendations in Finnish.